New chips came in today. These xeons are great to just drop in. I'll be crunchin with 8 cores after my breakin period. Ah, feels good to have a V8 again.

Thanks. Now to go after HCMD to change that one. Should be quicker with 8 cores chuggin away on it. If it cools down a bit, might give it a little kicker with my mac pro when not in use. Come winter, both will be crunchin. The mac pro really heats the bedroom up nice.

Bearcat is just warming up his XEONS. Watch is afterburners.

Cheers

With this mild summer getting cool into fall already, I've tweaked one of my 3 quad cores to run on all four cores instead of the usual 3. Also, this new Celeron Duo that will be in my parents' file/backup server crunches really well considering it only cost $49: http://www.allprojectstats.com/show.php?projekt=6&id=1048060
It's overclocked to 2.93ghz on stock voltage, yet only hits about 52C.
Once I move that machine to my parents' house and out of my office, I may crank up one more core on the newer quad in the office.

It is definitely time to upgrade some of the fleet. One of my P4's is running on borrowed time. I've had to cut BOINC to only run at 25% otherwise it hangs after about 2 minutes. And it hangs solid, no action from either keyboard or mouse, but the power off button does work. I think it might be a bad memory stick, but it could be the power supply is going out. Another of the P4's has developed a bad drive. They are identical boxes. I think I can make one system out of the two boxes, but it will have to wait until the weekend.
Maybe I will see what Microcenter has in their clearance bins this weekend and finally bite the bullet and upgrade. I really should since I have a Coolscan V and it should have a faster machine than the AMD 2000 to which it is connected for the negative scanning.

Cheers